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Michael
Kershaw

Associé

Toronto

Contacter par courriel à [email protected]

t. +1 416-601-8171

2291

Faculté de droit

Université de Toronto

Admission au barreau

Ontario, 2008

Disponible en Anglais seulement 

Committed to providing clients with practical and timely advice, Michael delivers exceptionally efficient results for clients’ transactions across a broad range of commercial real estate matters.

Michael Kershaw is a partner in our Real Property and Planning Group in Toronto. Michael maintains a general real estate transactional practice with a particular focus on real estate financing including syndicated facilities and commercial mortgage lending, acquisitions and dispositions, leasing and property development matters. In addition, he regularly acts for lenders on mortgages insured by Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation (“CMHC”) as well as providing regulatory advise to lenders and borrowers with respect to CMHC-insured loans.

Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Michael practiced at the Toronto office of another national law firm, worked as assistant general counsel of a private REIT and also as an associate city solicitor for the City of Guelph. Having had the unique opportunity to work in-house in both the private and public sectors, allows Michael to provide practical and focused advice to a broad range of clients.

Michael’s recent transactional experience includes:

  • Lender’s counsel in connection with a $470 million separate mortgage financing of a 50% interest in a commercial office tower in Toronto’s financial district;
  • Counsel to a syndicate of lenders in connection with a $300 million site servicing and construction facility for an industrial subdivision in the GTA;
  • Lender’s counsel in connection with a $230 million mortgage financing of a portfolio of 6 retail plazas in Calgary and Edmonton;
  • Lender’s counsel in connection with a $125 million mortgage financing of a portfolio of 12 self storage facilities in Ontario and Alberta;
  • Lender’s counsel in connection with CMHC-insured mortgage financings including multiple transactions in excess of $150 million;
  • Vendor’s counsel for the sale of a portfolio of 12 hotels across 5 provinces; and
  • Counsel for lending syndicates on high-profile developments such as: SkyTower, The Prestige, Artistry Condos, Nobu Toronto, Time and Space, The Social, Massey Tower Condos, Yonge + Rich and Transit City.

Michael received his JD from the University of Toronto in 2007, and was called to the Ontario bar in 2008.